Lara Rabinovitch recently received her PhD in modern Jewish history from New York University. She is working on two book projects: one on early twentieth-century Romanian Jewish migration, and a second book about Little Rumania on the Lower East Side of New York. As managing editor for two years, she helped launch McGill Universitys CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures / Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada in 2008.
Shiri Goren is a senior lector in modern Hebrew at Yale University. Her areas of specialisation include modern Hebrew literature and culture, Israeli film, Yiddish literature, the novel, and gender and sexuality. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how violence affects real and imagined spaces in Israel of recent years. Gorens articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Hebrew Literature, The American Jewish Archives Journal, and AJS Perspectives, among other venues.
Hannah S. Pressman is currently an affiliate instructor for the Samuel & Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. Her scholarly work focuses on issues of translation, language, and Jewish modernism; Hebrew and Yiddish literatures; and the cultural history of Zionism. She is a former NYU MacCracken Fellow, Wexner Graduate Fellow, Hort Fellow at YIVO, and Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.
